Inch-perfect pass ends World Cup scenario

You report (Clooney row with Mail boils over, 12 July) that Daily Mail group blames its appalling record of professional code breaches on the "huge story volume on its website". As Nick Davies showed in his book Flat Earth News, the Mail group was already by far the worst code-breacher in the British press in the 1990s – before the Mail Online website even existed. The Mail's conduct is thus not a reflection of its story volume but of its abusive culture. Only a tiny minority of its targets are in a position to fight back in the way George Clooney has, but that same Mail culture continues to deny more vulnerable victims the modest means of redress recommended in the Leveson report.Professor Brian CathcartHacked Off

• Your editorial on the Royal Mail sell-off (12 July) asks how "to avoid a rerun the next time a public asset is sold''. Surely this is unnecessarily defeatist?Francis PrideauxLondon

• My World Cup cliche dream team (ITV fights on the beaches, 12 July): between the posts I go for get something on it and, in defence, it's take a dive alongside clumsy challenge and inch-perfect pass. In the middle of the park, put too much on it is partnered with set-piece scenario. Playing in a wide role I've chosen work ethic and get up and down. Dropping into the hole is come to the party while, up front, it's the strike force of rattle the woodwork and pop up at the back stick. We'll get men behind the ball, park the bus, and only play football on the break – and, at this level, that will be going on all over the park, all afternoon.Richard WalkerLondon

• If Liverpool are selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona (Sport, 12 July), can they be accused of incisor trading?Peter RawlingBracknell, Berkshire